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people who are embarassingly bad at geography...
Does anyone know these people?? People who live in the United States, yet have no concept of where anything is in the country?
For example, my younger sister, up until she was 15, believed that Chicago was a state.
Even worse, I discovered while watching the projections from this past presidential election with my boy, that he DID NOT KNOW WHERE WASHINGTON D.C WAS. Keep in mind that this is a 24 year old college graduate. (Also, a fraternity alumni...Delta Tau Delta, this is one of your own....)
I noticed that in D.C., Kerry had 90% of the popular vote and I commented how much that seemed to be. He looked at me and said "well, look at the rest of New England..its all for Kerry" And I kind of looked at him strangely and asked what New England had to do with it. And he said "Well, Pennsylvania is all Kerry..." I told him that PA is not considered New England (which he should know, having been born & raised in Pittsburgh) and what did PA have to do with it anyway...I was talking about D.C. Thats when it came out that he thought that Washington DC was located IN PENNSYLVANIA. He is FROM the state and he actually thought that the president, the white house, the capitol building, EVERYTHING was in PA. I was in shock, literally. I tried to get out of him exactly where in PA did he think DC was, but he kind of shut down..understandably lol.
Does anyone else know anyone like this???
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